A Note on Baptist Beginnings in Bristol

Abstract

"Baptists in Bristol, whose forefathers began soon after 1600, are surprised to read Dr. Winthrop Hudson's categorical state., ment that " practically all the early Baptists had been Congregationalists before they became Baptists." Also, it is a surprise to hear that we Baptists owe little or nothing to the Anabaptists. Some of us always remember them when we sing the Te Deum: "The noble army of martyrs praise Thee." For Baptist beginnings in Bristol we go to the early pages of the Broadmead Records. There are two editions: the earlier one published by the Hanserd Knollys Society in 1847, edited by E. B. Underhi11; and the later edition included in the Bunyan Library in 1865, edited by Nathaniel Haycroft, minister of the Broadmead Church."